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newsgroups

newsgroups is the plural of newsgroup.

Meaning of newsgroup

Noun

newsgroup (plural newsgroups)

  1. A repository on a computer network where people can post messages, usually about a single subject.
    • “Most of it’s garbage and we’re not even bothering to translate it. There’s also a substantial amount of material downloaded from the alt.anarchy and alt.chaos.communist Internet newsgroups. Interesting reading but not exactly pertinent,” Brognola said.1998 November, Tim Somheil, chapter 6, in Hostile Proximity (The Executioner; 239), Toronto, Ont.: Worldwide Library, →ISBN, page 75

Questions about newsgroups

What is newsgroups the plural of?
Newsgroups is the plural of newsgroup.

Words near newsgroups in the dictionary

  1. newsgroup
  2. newsgrouper
  3. newsgroupers
  4. newsgroupie
  5. newsgroupies
  6. newsgroups
  7. Newsham
  8. Newsham with Breckenbrough
  9. newshand
  10. newshands
  11. newshawk

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